On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:54, Kennedy Clark wrote: > A bit off topic, but I keep looking for an answer to this question and > coming up with nothing... so I thought I would go to the gurus. :-) > > Can anyone recommend a good package for pinging other devices and > sending an email/alert when they go down? I'm aware of all kinds of > more complex things with GUIs and a zillion other bells and whistles > we aren't looking for, but we just want a simple tool (could be daemon > or something run from cron) that runs every 1 - 5 minutes and alerts > us when stuff disappears. Would need some basic logic like only > sending one email/alert when something goes down (vs sending an email > every 1-5 minutes until it comes back up). :-) We need to avoid a > requirement for an X-windows GUI, but a web-GUI would probably be fine > (a GUI-less command-line thing would probably be best). This probably isn't the best anymore, but I've had it running with no particular problems for 5 or 6 years - before any of the others like it were available. It is all-perl, has one server process to collate the responses and rate-limit the alarms, one network probe for all the remotely checks, and optional local clients for some things that can only be tested locally. It is fairly easy to add custom tests for local applications. http://spong.sourceforge.net/ -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com